Spanish 697DE - ST- Disgust and Desire

This course deals with emotions, language and translation. What is emotion and how do different languages express human emotions such as anger, disgust, love, yearning? The course examines the wide variety of cross-linguistic differences in means of emotion expression and the cultural diversity of affective repertoires. It then addresses the following questions: What do we learn from the translation of emotions between different languages? How can we translate emotional lives from one language to another, from one affective cultural repertoire to another? Ranging from various translations of the Hebrew Bible to recent English translations of Latin American literature in Spanish and Portuguese, this course explores such issues as the different approaches to emotion translation, the multiple challenges posed by emotion translation, and the important implications of these challenges for translation ethics.